Hello Shane, Doug...
Shane McCarron wrote:
> I appreciate that we are talking about a new attribute here, but I
> think we may have lost sight of what the attribute is *for*. What is
> the purpose of this attribute? Is it for defining CURIE prefix
> mappings to vocabularies?
Im guessing its defining prefix-less mappings instead of
property="foaf:name" it could be property="name" in both instances they
would map to http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name, the problem I would say is
how do you pass the prefixes and their mappings on to the parser
without using xmlns:foaf="..."
If it were possible, it would allow a microformats like markup, which in
my view would be a whole lot more elegant and readable than the crufty,
slightly over the top approach RDFa has now using xmlns, I cant help
thinking every time I mark up RDFa how very dated it looks, I gave up
using mark-up like style="color:green" a few years ago now, RDFa makes
me feel like I am repeating the same mistake but much, much worse, I
really dont think RDFa will last that long if we persist on using
prefixes and xmlns, but maybe that's just me ;)
Best Wishes
Martin .....
> Is it for identifying the mapping to use when no prefix is used on a
> CURIE? Is it for both? The name is important. But I think it is way
> more important to define the scope of the functionality.
> Doug Schepers wrote:
>> Hi, Folks-
>>
>> Michael Hausenblas wrote (on 7/23/09 5:05 AM):
>>>>> I'd suggest that @prefix is maybe not the best name for the
>>>>> attribute --
>>>>> too focused on the mechanics of CURIE mapping. @vocab maybe?
>>>>
>>>> I like @vocab +1 from me ;)
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> @vocab makes indeed the most sense to me as well. It conveys the
>>> message
>>> 'here is a vocabulary from which I intend to use certain terms'.
>>
>> Yes, this is what I meant in my post as well... make it something
>> that might be understood more easily by laymen. @vocab is an
>> improvement, at least for english speakers.
>>
>> Regards-
>> -Doug Schepers
>> W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs
>
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Martin McEvoy
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